Edit and Update an Existing XML file using PHP

[krish_s]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Story Self="123" AppliedTOCStyle="n" TrackChanges="false" StoryTitle="$ID/" AppliedNamedGrid="n">

<StoryPreference OpticalMarginAlignment="false" OpticalMarginSize="12" FrameType="TextFrameType" StoryOrientation="Horizontal" StoryDirection="LeftToRightDirection"/>

<InCopyExportOption IncludeGraphicProxies="true" IncludeAllResources="false"/>

</Story>

 

I have an existing xml file as shown above. I should add/append a xml string as a child to the Story tag(just before '</Story>' tag).

 

The Sample string to be appended is,

 

<ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/$ID/[No paragraph style]" Hyphenation="false">

<Properties>

<TabList type="list">

<ListItem type="record">

<Alignment type="enumeration">RightAlign</Alignment>

<AlignmentCharacter type="string">.</AlignmentCharacter>

<Leader type="string"></Leader>

<Position type="unit">126</Position>

</ListItem>

                              </TabList>

                      </Properties>

                </ParagraphStyleRange>

 

 

So the final output should be look like this,

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<Story Self="123" AppliedTOCStyle="n" TrackChanges="false" StoryTitle="$ID/" AppliedNamedGrid="n">

<StoryPreference OpticalMarginAlignment="false" OpticalMarginSize="12" FrameType="TextFrameType" StoryOrientation="Horizontal" StoryDirection="LeftToRightDirection"/>

<InCopyExportOption IncludeGraphicProxies="true" IncludeAllResources="false"/>

<ParagraphStyleRange AppliedParagraphStyle="ParagraphStyle/$ID/[No paragraph style]" Hyphenation="false">

<Properties>

<TabList type="list">

<ListItem type="record">

<Alignment type="enumeration">RightAlign</Alignment>

<AlignmentCharacter type="string">.</AlignmentCharacter>

<Leader type="string"></Leader>

<Position type="unit">126</Position>

</ListItem>

                              </TabList>

                      </Properties>

                </ParagraphStyleRange>

</Story>

 

Any suggestion to achieve this using PHP and any XML technology(DOM XML/SimpleXML) would be appreciatable.

 

 

[ignace]

Take a look at dom